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On 8 February, Amberjack was ordered to move to the west side of Ganongga Island and on 10 February, she was directed to keep south of latitude 7°30'S and to cover the traffic routes from Rabaul and Buka Island to Shortland Basin. On 13 February, Amberjack was assigned the entire Rabaul-Buka-Shortland Sea area and told to hunt for traffic.
The working theory is that the submarine was either the Amberjack or the USS Andrew Jackson. Seeing how the Amberjack was on a 3-month deployment to the eastern Mediterranean Sea to reconnoiter Egypt, [10] [11] this would mean she could, in theory, have been in the vicinity of the attack when it occurred. There is no confirmation of this theory ...
USS Amberjack (SS-219), was a Gato-class submarine that was lost after a successful career during World War II. USS Amberjack (SS-522) , was a Tench -class submarine that served through most of the Cold War and was later sold to Brazil.
After commissioning the Amberjack (SS-219) at New London, Connecticut, on June 19, 1942, he completed two war patrols in Amberjack off Bougainville and Guadalcanal Islands as executive officer. During the first war patrol, which lasted fifty-seven days, the Amberjack sank the 19,000-ton Japanese ship Tonan Maru , a 5,000-ton transport and a ...
The Amberjack arrived in January 1948, and operated along the East Coast and in the West Indies for 11 years. On 23 April 1947, the former German USS U-3008 reported for duty at Key West with Submarine Squadron 4 and began working with the Operational Development Force.
In an attempt to show the full timeline of the actual existence of each ship, the final dates on each bar may variously be the date struck, sold, scrapped, scuttled, sunk as a reef, etc., as appropriate to show last time it existed as a floating object.
I. Japanese submarine I-2; Japanese submarine I-4; Japanese submarine I-5; Japanese submarine I-6; Japanese submarine I-9; Japanese submarine I-10; Japanese submarine I-12
Near the southwest corner of the park is a memorial to the crew of the USS Amberjack, a submarine that was sunk during World War II, and 51 other American subs lost during the conflict. [7] Also located near the southwest corner of the park is the 20-foot tall, granite Hobson Monument.